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Prominent Russians: Leaders

Yury Andropov Leaders Yury Andropov was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party from November 1982 until his untimely death just 16 months later.

Leonid Brezhnev Leaders A Soviet statesman and Communist Party official, Brezhnev was the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years, a period of internal stability and slow economic decay.

Konstantin Chernenko Leaders Konstantin Chernenko served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev Leaders Mikhail Gorbachev is viewed by some as legendary reformist and as enemy number one responsible for the collapse of a Superpower by others.

Nikita Khrushchev Leaders Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, who succeeded Stalin and exposed his personality cult, bringing the famous "Khrushchev thaw" to the country.

Lazar Kaganovich Leaders Lazar Kaganovich was a Soviet statesman and Stalin’s right hand man at one point, but was later expelled from the Communist Party by Khrushchev.

Vladimir Lenin Leaders Vladimir Lenin was the guiding spirit of the Soviet Republic, leader of the Bolshevik Party and the mastermind of the 1917 October Revolution.

Dmitry Medvedev Leaders Dmitry Medvedev is the current President of Russia

Mikhail Kalinin Leaders Mikhail Kalinin was the nominal head of state from 1919-1946 in the USSR.

Vladimir Putin Leaders At the stroke of the 21st century, Vladimir Putin became one of the worlds’ most well-known politicians, associated with Russia’s rise from the ashes.

Joseph Stalin Leaders Joseph Stalin is one of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in Russian history and is still the subject of fierce discussions.

Boris Yeltsin Leaders Yeltsin put an end to the USSR, becoming the first president of the post-Soviet Russia.

B Isaac Babel Ivan Bagramyan Pyotr Bagration Leon Bakst Aleksandr Bakulev Mikhail Bakunin Miliy Balakirev Konstantin Balmont Yury Baluevsky Yevgeny Baratynsky Mikhail Barklay de Tolly (Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly) Mikhail Baryshnikov St. Basil Vasily Bazhenov Vladimir Bekhterev Timur Bekmambetov Aleksandr Benckendorff Aleksandr Benua Boris Berezovsky Olga Berggolts Lavrentiy Beria Vitus Bering Mark Bernes Dima Bilan Aleksandr Blok Fyodor Bondarchuk Sergey Bondarchuk St.Boris & Gleb Aleksandr Borodin Pavel Borodin Evgeny Botkin Mikhail Botvinnik Viktor Bout Leonid Brezhnev Sergey Brin Joseph Brodsky Aleksey Brusilov Karl Bryullov Valery Bryusov Semyon Budenny Nikolay Bukharin Mikhail Bulgakov Ivan Bunin

C Catherine I Catherine II the Great Marc Chagall Anna Chakvetadze Feodor Chaliapin Vasily Chapaev Yury Chayka Evgeny Chazov Anton Chekhov Mikhail Chekhov Konstantin Chernenko Viktor Chernomyrdin Sergey Cheskidov Boris Chirkov Valery Chkalov Anatoly Chubais Korney Chukovsky

D Vladimir Dahl Ekaterina Dashkova Denis Davydov The Demidov dynasty Anton Denikin Oleg Deripaska Gavriil Derzhavin Aleksandr Deyneka Semyon Dezhnyov Sergey Diagilev Dmitry Donskoy Yury Dolgoruky Fyodor Dostoevsky Sergey Dovlatov Nadezhda Durova The Durovs Felix Dzerzhinsky

E Ilya Ehrenburg Sergey Eisenstein Elizaveta Petrovna Aleksey Ermolov Sergey Esenin

F Afanasy Fet Viacheslav Fetisov Sergey Filatov Denis Fonvizin Mikhail Fradkov Mikhail Frunze Svyatoslav Fyodorov Ivan Fyodorov

H Aleksandr Herzen Dmitry Hvorostovsky

I Igor the Brave Igor Chapurin Ivan III the Great Andrey Illarionov Ilya Muromets Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Ivan IV the Terrible Ivan Kalita Sergey Ivanov Igor Ivanov Aleksandr Izosimov

K Alina Kabayeva Mikhail Kalashnikov Mikhail Kalatozov Lev Kamenev Vassily Kandinsky Pyotr Kapitsa Nikolay Karamzin Dmitry Karbyshev Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov Mikhail Kasyanov Mstislav Keldysh Aleksandr Kerensky Yerofey Khabarov Konstantin Khabensky Aram Khachaturyan Aleksansdr Khanzhonkov Valery Kharlamov Daniil Kharms Aleksandr Khloponin Bohdan Khmelnitsky Mikhail Khodorkovsky Svetlana Khorkina Viktor Khristenko Nikita Khrushchev Sergey Kirienko Sergey Kirov Aleksandr Kolchak Aleksandra Kollontai Anatoly Komm Pyotr Konchalovsky Andrey Konchalovsky Ivan Konev Fyodor Konyukhov Ilya Kormiltsev Lavr Kornilov Sergey Korolev Mikhail Koshkin Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Aleksey Kosygin Anna Kournikova Sofia Kovalevskaya Dmitry Kozak Ivan Kozhedub Ivan Kramskoy Ivan Kruzenshtern (Adam Johann von Krusenstern) Ivan Krylov Ksenia Sobchak Matilda Kshesinskaya Aleksey Kudrin Aleksandr Kuprin Igor Kurchatov Mikhail Kutuzov

M Anton Makarenko Nikolay Makarov Nestor Makhno Georgy Malenkov Kazimir Malevich Rodion Malinovsky Savva Mamontov Anastasia Myskina Osip Mandelstam Aleksey Maresyev Maria Feodorovna, Empress Consort of Russia Samuil Marshak Aleksandr Matrosov Valentina Matvienko Vladimir Mayakovsky Dmitry Medvedev Leonid Melamed Dmitry Mendeleev Ivan Michurin Mikhail Kalinin Nikita Mikhalkov Sergey Mikhalkov Artyom Mikoyan Anastas Mikoyan Kuzma Minin and Count Dmitry Pozharsky Andrey Mironov Sergey Mironov Igor Moiseev Vyacheslav Molotov Aleksey Mordashov Savva Morozov Modest Mussorgsky

O Oleg Veshchy (The Prophet) Princess Olga of Kiev Grigory Ordzhonikidze Aleksey Orlov (Chesmensky) Lyubov Orlova Nikolay Ostrovsky Alexander Ovechkin The Ovechkin Family Sergey Ozhegov

R Aleksandr Radishchev Arkady Raikin Sergey Rakhmaninov Faina Ranevskaya Grigory Rasputin Stepan (Stenka) Razin Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Konstantin Rokossovsky Aleksey Mikhailovich Romanov Anastasia Romanova The Romanovs Dietmar Rosenthal Karl Rossi Mstislav Rostropovich Robert Rozhdestvensky Andrei Rublev Aleksandr Rutskoy The Ryabushinsky family

S Viktor Sadovnichy Marat Safin Nikas Safronov Andrey Sakharov Tanya Savicheva Aleksey Savrasov Alfred Schnittke Aleksandr Scriabin Dinara Safina Igor Sechin Anatoly Serdyukov Kirill Serebrennikov Valentin Serov Varlam Shalamov Maria Sharapova Aleksey Shchusev Eduard Shevardnadze Ivan Shishkin Sergey Shmatko Sergey Shoigu Mikhail Sholokhov Dmitry Shostakovich The Shparos Vasily Shukshin Klavdia Shulzhenko Vasily Shuysky Igor Sikorsky Denis Simachev Nikolay Sklifosovsky Sergey Solovyov Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Sergius of Radonezh (Sergey Radonezhsky) Aleksey Stakhanov Joseph Stalin Konstantin Stanislavsky Pyotr Stolypin Igor Stravinsky Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Pavel Sukhoi Vasily Surikov Ivan Susanin Aleksandr Suvorov Georgy Sviridov

U Galina Ulanova Fyodor Ushakov Vladimir Ustinov Tatyana Ustinova

V Nikolai Valuev Vasily Klyuchevsky Viktor Vasnetsov Viktor Kochubey Viktor Pelevin Galina Vishnevskaya Vladimir Monomakh (Monomachus) Anastassia Volochkova Mikhail Vrubel

W Sergei Witte Ferdinand (Fyodor) Wrangel Pyotr Wrangel

Y Yaroslav the Wise Lev Yashin Evgeny Yasin Sergey Yastrzhembsky Yegorov and Kantaria Yelena Baturina Boris Yeltsin Yermak Timofeevich Evgeny Yevtushenko Valentin Yudashkin Salavat Yulayev Igor Yurgens Yury Grigorovich Nikolay Yusupov

Z Nikolay Zabolotsky Slava Zaitsev Vasily Zaitsev Svetlana Zakharova Evgeny Zamyatin Vladimir Zhirinovsky Aleksandr Zhukov Georgy Zhukov Mikhail Zhvanetsky Viktor Zubkov Sergey Zverev Vladimir Zworykin Gennady Zyuganov